Monday, November 30, 2009

Update on the Division of Banks/Gibbons documents.

Apparently some documents are going to be mailed out tomorrow but they haven't yet told her what the documents are, but they want her to sign a confidentiality agreement.

She will do no such thing at this point. She will start reviewing documents and sort through everything and take it from there. Sounds like a bit of a shell game to me. Where is her own file? Where are the DOB's own regulations? What's the holdup? Watch this space for updates.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Black and white in Ohio: Corrupt AG Aide serves 45 weekend days for theft, my old client gets 119 days and put in hole for disrupting a meeting.

Read this. Aide tied to Ohio AG scandal sentenced to 45 days
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
A one-time aide (Anthony Gutierrez) who helped bring about the downfall of former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has been sentenced to 45 days on an unrelated theft-in-office charge and other counts......

He was also involved in a sex scandal that killed Marc Dann, and he also smashed up cars and got them fixed without reporting it.
Take a look to read what happened to Jerry Doyle.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Martha Coakley's Mass Division of Banks refuses to produce documents while moving to permanently revoke Catherine Gibbons' Broker's License.

I sent a copy of this post to the Division of Banks using a link in this story. As noted last Friday, Miracle Mortgage, by and through Catherine Gibbons issued a request for public documents to the Division of Banks approximately 7 weeks ago. With respect to a hearing that the Division is trying to hold on or before January 11, 2010, the Superior Court stated on Friday:
"It would seem to me that production [of the documents] should occur no later than next week."

But when I appeared at today's hearing at the Division of Banks South Station headquarters there were no documents for her but the Division and its attorneys steadfastly held to their position that Ms. Gibbons -- who had a "1" rating before she was punished for doing Stated Income Deals -- should lose her Broker's License forever. The Hearing Officer this morning told Ms. Gibbons
"You've lost your livelihood for 9 months and I don't take that lightly."

Wait until he sees the file, what with them falsely accusing her of being a convicted felon and such.

I read Ms. Gibbons' document requests and they included, inter alia, a request for her own file, and for the Division's policies and procedures. Why these documents have not been produced at this time is beyond me. Last Friday their counsel stated that they did have many of the documents ready to be produced, yet again today there were indeed no documents produced. Be that as it may, the Hearing Officer today ORDERED the Division to provide him a list of the documents that it agrees are public so that Ms. Gibbons may issue her supplemental Answer within the next two (2) weeks. Ms. Gibbons informed me that The Division's Dennis Otis told her that they do allow Stated Deals. The Division of Banks actually had guidelines on how to structure Stated Income Deals, so she obviously wants to know how and why her Stated Income Deals were considered "Fraudulent."

Friday, November 20, 2009

Martha Coakley's Mass Division of Banks defends falsely calling black female broker a "convicted felon" and failing to produce documents.

NOTE: Ms. Gibbons will appear on "The Nation Speaks" radio program tomorrow morning at 6:30am at TOUCH 106.1 FM.
The Massachusetts Division of Banks issued Miracle Mortgage a Cease and Desist Order, along the way alleging that she was a convicted felon. In point of fact, the charges against her were dismissed and the file sealed. The Division still maintained its position despite the dismissal and an accompanying Affidavit from her counsel. Ms. Gibbons had a #1 rating as a broker.

She has been forced to attend conferences and hearings that were adversarial in nature without any paperwork or notice that she could have counsel. She has requested material documents from the Division 6 weeks ago and they have failed to produce a single document or a Good Faith cost estimate. In a hearing this afternoon for Injunctive relief to make the Division produce documents before Monday's scheduled conference the Court held that it did not have jurisdiction because in essence Ms. Gibbons' status as a Respondent in an adversarial administrative action trumps her right to receive even a Good Faith Cost estimate within 10 days of her Public Records Request. Ms. Gibbons will have to wait until the Final Adjudicative Order before joining the current public records lawsuit with one for her Constitutional Deprivations.

So on behalf of the Station I will issue the same requests and their counsel Tory Kim will have to answer me within 10 days, as per Law.

With respect to a hearing that the Division is trying to hold on or before January 11, 2010, the Court stated:
"It would seem to me that production [of the documents] should occur no later than next week."

Furthermore, Ms. Gibbons' separate complaint before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) alleges that the Division of Banks has targeted her as one of only 3 black female brokers, while allowing white owned and operated broker firm and banks to go unscathed even though she was following their own procedures on Stated Income Mortgages.

She cites the case of Fidelity Guarantee Mortgage Corporation v. T Reben, 809 F2d 931 (1987) as illustrative. Vermont put them out of business with a Cease and Desist Order. In that case, the Court of Appeals affirmed a finding that the lower court held that a Civil Rights Conspiracy lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1985 was frivolous, and it taxed costs against Fidelity for a frivolous appeal as well.

Further, I am verifying an allegation that Fidelity Principal Herb Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to jail time.
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But what happened when complaints were filed with the Division of Banks against Fidelity (a Caucasian-owned business) in the Greater Boston area after these problems?

Answer: Nothing, really. Fidelity filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy during Ms. Gibbons' trial against them and East-West Mortgage for Fraud. But the Division did set out to issue a Cease and Desist against HER The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination complaint will be hosted at this post upon receipt.

Here is Martha Coakely testifying in October in favor of passage of SB 1848, a bill she co-sponsored to promote fairness and accountability in the Mortgage industry. Perhaps she should review the existing case file on Catherine Gibbons/Miracle Mortgage and go from there.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Senate hopeful Mike Capuano visits Grove Hall -- unlike his opponents or the major media, they stay away in droves.

I cannot directly endorse anyone on behalf of the station, but let's just say I like Mike for his stance on open government, Civil Rights and liberties. As to major media it's odd that a 6-Term Congressman and Contender for U.S. Senate shows up to meet the people and the only motion picture cameras are the ones shown here.

I just happened to be across the street at the station for my weekly KingCast Cases so I had my iPhone with me to capture the essence. Councilor Arroyo at large paid a visit and you can see Senator Owens and Councilor Yancey as well. It was a decent turnout, I took the camera picture early on so the seats filled up, actually.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

TOUCH 106.1 continues investigation into malfeasant government agencies: The Division of Banks.

Fidelity Guarantee Mortgage Corporation v. T Reben, 809 F2d 931 (1987).
"Fidelity, a Massachusetts corporation authorized to do business in Maine, opened an office in Portland, Maine, in February of 1980 for the purpose of dealing in residential mortgage loans. In July 1980, the superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection, Barbara Reid Alexander, notified Fidelity pursuant to Me.Rev.Stat.Ann. tit. 9-A, Sec. 6-108 that it was in violation of Maine law prohibiting charging interest in excess of 12.25% on consumer loans without Bureau approval. Alexander issued a cease and desist order at the same time. Between June and September 1980, thirty consumer actions were brought against Fidelity in the federal district court based on its violation of Maine law."

In the above case, the Court of Appeals affirmed a finding that the lower court held that a Civil Rights Conspiracy lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1985 was frivolous, and it taxed costs against Fidelity for a frivolous appeal as well.

Further, I am verifying an allegation that Fidelity Principal Herb Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to jail time.
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But what happened when complaints were filed with the Division of Banks against Fidelity (a Caucasian-owned business) in the Greater Boston area after these problems?

Answer: Nothing, really. But the Division did set out to issue a Cease and Desist against a black female broker (one of only 3 in the State) who complained about Fidelity. She alleges retaliation and has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Stay tuned for details when we receive a copy of the Complaint and her request for public information that was drawn last week.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

High Court Single Justice orders Prosecutor Scheibel to hand over five (5) years of allegedly racist prosecution files at UMASS Amherst.

See: justiceforjason.org.

Here is the background on how two drunken white men shattered UMass student Jason Vassell's window, taunted him with racial slurs and threats of violence, stormed in his dorm building, broke his nose and got a slap on the wrist while Mr. Vassell has the proverbial book thrown at him for using a pocket knife to fend them off. Read the comments for more, and a comment from Vassell's Attorney David P. Hoose.

Here's today's WBZ coverage.

Boston (AP) -- A single justice on the state's highest court has ruled that a former University of Massachusetts student charged with stabbing two men in his dorm can see five years worth of prosecutor's records.

Lawyers for Jason Vassell requested the records from the Northwestern District Attorney's office to determine whether there is a pattern of racially-tinged prosecutions.

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NOTE: This is all part of an ongoing investigation and report that TOUCH 106.1 FM will be conducting into the discriminatory and otherwise malfeasant properties of high level government agencies, including Prosecutors and the Division of Banks. We will be at every Court hearing and we will tell the Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Harrington U.S. Supreme Court case has local implications for race-baiting and lying prosecutors in the Vassell and Franconia NH cases.

As I already told you, Mike Nifong was disbarred for his fabrications in the Duke rape case.

In Boston,
white prosecutor Suzanne Sullivan has run amok, failing to provide exculapatory evidence in the form of a conflicting statements from a cop whom Federal Judge Mark Wolf found to be a liar. We still await the imposition of sanctions for her behavior. I wonder if she would be afforded the same latitude if she were black. As we shall see in upcoming segments, blacks don't fare so well when the government officials start sanctioning licensed professionals.
[Judge] Wolf wrote last month to Eric H. Holder Jr., the US attorney general, asking him to crack down on prosecutors who fail to disclose information that could clear defendants, and repeated his past assessment that the Boston office has a "dismal history of intentional and inadvertent violations." Similar entreaties he made to Holder's predecessors in recent years achieved little, Wolf wrote.

Note: The Obama administration has sided with the Defense in Harrington, read about it in two paragraphs.....

Also in Boston, the Court soft-peddled the white prosecutor who did the same thing to Bernard Baran, who spent 21 years behind bars. I'll be following up to see what, if any discipline is meted out.

Answer: Nothing. Daniel Ford has even served as a Judge.

And now the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing the case of Terry Harrington vs. David Richter, as noted on NPR. These two black men were framed as boys and sent to prison for allegedly killing a white police officer in the snooty Council Bloughs, Iowa suburb back in 1977. In Boston these are echoes of the Jason Vassell case I've been following where bigoted white prosecutors selectively prosecute black males. From NPR:
The Supreme Court has indeed said that prosecutors are immune from suit for anything they do at trial. But in this case, Harrington and McGhee maintain that before anyone being charged, prosecutors gathered evidence alongside police, interviewed witnesses and knew the testimony they were assembling was false.

In New Hampshire former NH AG Kelly Ayotte -- the State's highest Prosecutor -- lied and fabricated evidence in the franconia shooting tragedy involving Liko Kenney, Bruce McKay and Gregory Floyd. Read these posts and check these videos at the book launch for Casey Sherman's "Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains." Sherman calls for a new investigation as do former Franconia LE Brad Whipple and I. Sadly, instead of stepping down with some measure of dignity, Kelly Ayotte has the nerve to flee and run a campaign for U.S. Senate.

For shame, for shame. The North Country of New Hampshire is fighting back and I'm glad to be a part of that, read the Petition. I hope Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee are permitted to sue the living daylights out of the public officials who race-baited an entire community and ruined these men's lives. Here's Terry Harrington leaving prison in April, 2009:

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Menino wins, will face challenges in minority hiring, transparency, schools and CORI reform.

We will start with the Boston Residents Jobs Policy referenced in this post from earlier today, with black folks and women underrepresented and doing all of the work in the gentrified community of the South End -- nee Roxbury.

Everything else will unfold in Due Course, but we anticipate vigorous cooperation from the Mayor, which is nice.

TOUCH 106.1 FM Boston and KingCast question on YouTube: A blatant violation of Boston Residency Jobs policy on Election Day?

It sure seems like a violation of the Boston Residents Job Policy, since when was Boston 90% white? What, no qualified black or other minorities to be found? I counted 11 white helmets and one black one. On neighboring Tremont street it was 6 white helmets, none black. Whomever wins this evening will have to answer to this:

We at TOUCH 106.1 FM are pleased to hear Candidates Flaherty/Yoon and Mayor Menino promise to uphold the Boston hiring policy. We will be closely monitoring this situation because by what we saw today through the KingCast cameras, was the usual one in ten ratio:

One black man (and no women) doing the lifting while everyone else stands on shovels, sits in trucks and delegates responsibility. The video and pictures don’t lie. The Candidates had better not be lying, either, or else we will start filing complaints with the EEOC, DOJ and U.S. Attorneys on the Executive Order 11375 and 11246 tip.

Boston Mayoral Candidate Ticket of Flaherty and Yoon visit TOUCH 106.1 FM studios to pledge committment to fairness.

Here at studio a few moments ago Lloyd King and James Cofield said they were "disgusted" with Mayor Menino's performance in several areas, most notably schools and minority hiring. For his part on upcoming KingCast YouTube video, Councilor Flaherty promised earnest commitment toward placing qualified minority candidates at upper echelon positions in his cabinet and within the Boston Police Department. He has repeatedly stated
"My cabinet will resemble the City of Boston."
and
"The Mayor's cabinet is more reflective of 1909 than 2009."
He also committed to adhere to the Boston Residency Jobs policy and promised sanctions for contractors and subcontractors who don't follow it. By sanctions I hope and assume that he means non-monetary default and no continued business.

KingCast TOUCH Beat 106.1 FM radio segments from 21 Oct. and 28 Oct.

21 Oct. is here. Topics covered include: S 8013 "Robert Taylor's Law" and the Jason Vassell case.

28 Oct. is here. Topics covered: Citibank's failure to produce videos they claim support their position in refusing to open a bank account for me as they opened one for my Caucasian girlfriend, and Monitoring police abuse in Boston and Franconia, vis a vis Casey Sherman's book "Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains."